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Look who's back in...Stanford again!

3/20/2018

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On Saturday, three 2017 MERO alumni participated in the second annual Stanford HyPE: High School to PhD Event at Stanford University. This all day event is an opportunity for students from throughout the Bay Area to come to campus and learn about the path to college, cutting edge research, and what it means to pursue a PhD in the Biosciences. 
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About 80 students from 4 local high schools participated, taking part in panel discussions on college and financial aid, visiting active research labs (where they got to touch a human brain!!!!), and braving the rain on a campus tour. We're really proud of Jack, Guadalupe, and Jeremy for taking a first step towards a career in the sciences, and are excited to see what they do in the future!
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Introducing the MERO 2018 students!

3/7/2018

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Yesterday we had our first field trip of the 2018 MERO program! This year we have 13 participants, plus a student coordinator who participated in the 2017 program. Check out the photos below of the group exploring the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve!
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​Over the next four months, we'll be going out to the field every two weeks with these students, doing hands-on ecological research and exploring beautiful natural areas. Yesterday we learned about biodiversity and began discovering the incredible diversity of life at Jasper Ridge. Our students loved getting a close look at wildlife using our full set of binoculars. We got to see deer, a bald eagle, rough-skinned newts, and a flock of over 40 turkeys!
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Learning how to use the binoculars while observing a great egret (Ardea alba) on Searsville Lake at Jasper Ridge.
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Turkeys can fly!!! 
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Posing for a photo after finishing a biodiversity scavenger hunt.
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Just when we were leaving a bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) came by looking for its fish dinner. The first time any of us had seen a bald eagle at Jasper Ridge!
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    About us

    Welcome to El Mero Mero, the official blog of Menlo-Atherton Ecology Research Outdoors (MERO). Founded in 2017, MERO is a free, after-school environmental education program for high school English Language Learners that gets students outside doing ecology. El Mero Mero is Spanish for "the best" or "legit", which is exactly the kind of science we do in the MERO program!

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